A Change in Focus

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Originally, I conceived of this project as a means of artistic expression. That goal is still in place (I say, despite not having posted in years). But life got away from me, hobbies shifted, I started grad school (perhaps more on that later)… all-in-all, the creative juices have been meandering down new, freshly-cut pathways, which has done nothing to stymie my hopes for writing but most definitely has changed the type of content I’m able to put out.

I do still hope to put out theological content, artistic and otherwise. Most of my writing time is taken up with academic work, so it’s likely that most of anything I post would just be term papers reworked to be more accessible (and context-free). I wrote an extensive 25 page dissertation on the nature of ethics, death, and life-after-death in the modern phenomenological tradition, which isn’t off the table either, and something to look forward to.

The other large section of my posts is likely going to be taken up with a long-term bioengineering project I’ve set my hands to. This will be long enough to deserve its own introductory post, but in short I’ve set the ambitious and challenging task for myself of breeding (I use the term loosely) cold-hardy variants of various tropical plants. I’ve already done quite a bit of work, engineering, chemical, and biological, to start to set up my spaces, and unfortunately a lot of that hasn’t been documented, but I’m absolutely going to use this space to keep myself accountable for the future, and to extensively log what I’m doing and what the results look like. Hopefully this serves as an inspiration for others!

I want to end on a last thought on ‘the integrative man.’ So much of life today is fragmented into different spheres, and the humanitas of man suffers as a result. I’m the master par excellence of partitioning myself out into different contexts. I’m hoping that this project will help me become more ‘schizophrenic’ (to borrow a phrase from Deleuze and Guattari) in crossing the traditional boundaries of documentation and reflection, in order that I myself might become plenius humanum, more fully human. Is there a poetic theology of GMO plants? And maybe I’ll be the first to discover—but you, my dear reader, will be the first to hear of it.